Quotes Rubén Burgos post J2 ELW vs Umana Reyer Venezia

17/10/2024

“First of all, congratulations to Venice, I think they played a good game, especially after the first quarter and they were able to play better with emotions and with those streaks that was something we wanted to stop. After a good start of the game, I think that sharing the ball well and stopping their systems and the scouting work we were doing, we had a good advantage, which Venice was able to reduce in the second quarter as a result of our turnovers. They were scoring a lot after turnovers and punishing that. We were hardly producing from the defense. I think that's how the scenario continued, we tried to change it with rotations, but we probably didn't make the best decisions from the bench. And what we have to improve, especially in this game, is to know how to manage those emotions in bad moments, where I think that in specific moments they have hit important shots. That has lowered our morale, we have made some unforced errors and there has been enlarged the advantage that, fortunately, in the end we have been able to reduce, thinking that it is a rival that we will surely meet if we advance further in the competition and that has to come to the Fonteta. I think the team today has made an effort, I think it is a good game to learn at the beginning of the season and we were aware of the hardness of the Euroleague, of each rival and how tough our group is. We played against the Italian champion and at home they were able to impose themselves. Now we have to improve the things that depended on us, especially those losses, and not to extend those bad moments or good moments of the rival”.

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